The Employee Advisory Group wants your feedback

Since May, 22 Fermilab employees from areas throughout the laboratory have gathered each month as part of the Employee Advisory Group to discuss issues raised in the employee focus groups.

Summaries of the discussions from each of these meetings are now available online.

During the four meetings the group has held so far, members have discussed: dual track for management and technical staff, the performance review process, how to communicate Fermilab's long-term strategic plan and perceptions about HR. You can learn more about these and upcoming meeting topics on the EAG meetings web page.

In each of these meetings, advisory group members provide Fermilab senior management with employee perspectives, concerns, insights and suggestions with regard to the development and implementation of new and revised policies that affect the Fermilab workplace.

In order to best advise senior management in future meetings, Fermilab's Employee Advisory Group members need to hear from you. If you would like to communicate an observation or suggestion regarding one of the upcoming discussion topics, please contact one of the Employee Advisory Group members.

The Johns Hopkins University

NAME:
The Johns Hopkins University

HOME TOWN:
Baltimore, Maryland

MASCOT:
Blue jay

SCHOOL COLORS:
The university's official colors are gold and sable. Its athletic colors are Columbia blue and black.

PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
Babar, CDF and CMS

EXPERIMENTS AT FERMILAB:
CDF and CMS

NUMBER OF SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS AT FERMILAB:
Two faculty, two postdocs and one graduate student

COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
1969

MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO FERMILAB EXPERIMENTS:
Major hardware contributions include vertex detectors for CDF (SVX, SVX', SVX II) and CMS (forward pixels) while a major software contribution for CDF and CMS is Frontier, which allows worldwide database access.

PARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH FOCUS: Heavy quark physics, both bottom and top, and the search for the Higgs boson and "beyond the Standard Model" particles.

WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APART?
Our experimental group has a very strong synergy with our theoretical particle physics group.

FUNDING AGENCIES:
National Science Foundation, Department of Energy

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EAP offers September webinar

Fermilab's Employee Assistance Program offers a webinar in September titled "The Many Faces of Loss: Healing Through Grief".

The webinar will be broadcast on Tuesday, Sept. 14, at 2 p.m. CDT and Thursday, Sept. 16, at 11 a.m. CDT.

Anyone interested in virtually attending the live events can register through the Fermilab EAP website with the User ID "Fermilab" and the password "eap".

The event is one of the monthly one-hour Webinars offered by Fermilab's Employee Assistance Program. All Webinars are archived so they can be viewed at a later date if the scheduled date/time is not convenient.

More West Nile mosquitoes found in Kane

From The Courier News, Sept. 1, 2010

Mosquitoes collected in traps in Carpentersville, Montgomery and at Fermilab near Batavia have tested positive for the West Nile virus, bringing the total number of positive batches to 13 this year, the Kane County Health Department announced Tuesday.

Previously, the health department collected mosquitoes in the Aurora, Elburn, Batavia, Huntley, Montgomery and South Elgin areas that tested positive for the virus. Three birds collected this summer have tested positive; they were found in the Aurora, Pingree Grove and South Elgin areas, according to a department press release.

In addition, last week health department reported its first human case of West Nile virus of the season, a 46-year-old man from Burlington, the release noted.

"We have seen mosquitoes collected from all parts of our county that have tested positive, telling us the virus is in our communities," Executive Director Paul Kuehnert said in the release. "Until we have the first killing frost, we're going to continue to see a risk for West Nile."

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